News Briefs
Sour milk politics; Congress tries to improve school lunches; court says no to Monsanto; and Harvard researchers develop Frankenstein machine.
17 Aug
2010
17 Aug
2010
What Your Waistline Means to Your Health
The New England Journal of Medicine in a November 2008 issue published research that had tracked nearly 360,000 men and women in 9 European countries for nearly 10 years. The results confirm research that has proliferated in the U.S. medical literature that is, a full to bursting waistline is a stronger predictor of premature death […]
17 Aug
2010
Diabetes Rate Up 90% in Last 10 Years
Washington University, in a NIH-funded grant request in 2005 to study ginseng and its blood sugar modulating effects, called diabetes an epidemic. They predicted 10% of the US population would be type II diabetic within the year.
17 Aug
2010
Drugs in Our Water
Thanks to the imagination of a school girl in WV, a growing appreciation exists of our exposure to pharmaceutical drugs in our water supply system. It was her school experiment after reading about drugs in Swiss lakes that sparked the US Geological Service to launch a survey of streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds. The results […]
10 Aug
2010
Raw and Organic Almonds Lawsuit Scores Its First Major Victory
A group of almond growers has been fighting for three years to keep their almonds from being adulterated against their will. Now their plea will finally be heard in federal court.
10 Aug
2010
JAMA Reports that Vitamin B6 May Reduce Lung Cancer. Will the FDA Turn Natural B6 into a Drug?
In stark contrast to Consumer Reports Health’s profoundly negative view of supplements comes a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting that high levels of vitamin B6 may reduce lung cancer risk.
10 Aug
2010
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits The campaign to address Americans’ sun exposure has become the standard of care in American medicine. One of this country’s leading medical educators and researchers, Michael Holick, MD, even lost his tenure ship in dermatology at Boston University when […]
03 Aug
2010
Calcium and Heart Attack—What You Really Need to Know
You saw the sensational media headlines last week: calcium supplements cause heart attacks! We told you the truth about this several weeks ago, before the latest research came out. If you take calcium, be sure to read this.
03 Aug
2010
Readers’ Corner: AMA Monopoly, Doctors Threatened With Jail
This week we address questions about the AMA’s monopoly in billing codes, discuss doctors being threatened with jail—and get Trent Lott into the right political party!
03 Aug
2010
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